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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, that No. 17 be taken before No. 1. This concerns the Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024, which will revolutionise the situation for disabled citizens in the State who cannot get the services, supports, therapies and surgeries they need. It would take control away from the HSE and put it into the hands of disabled citizens and carers....

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: First Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Disability Act 2005 and to provide for related matters.

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: First Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: I thank Senator Mullen for letting me lead off. The Minister is very welcome to the House. I am that rare commodity in that I am a Trinity Senator, even though I am from Finglas. I am very proud to be a representative of that august institution here and very grateful to have been elected. I voted for Seanad reform in the last referendum. Sad to say, I was a teenager in 1979, believe it...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: I am looking for a little clarity. I am delighted to see that the Government has resolved to fully endorse the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, including the optional protocol. While I understand that the Cabinet has agreed to do this, when will this happen and on what date? I have heard some mixed messages that it might be December and, given the circumstances of...

Seanad: Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: We will take six minutes each if that is okay.

Seanad: Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: In that case, I had better be quick. I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. I welcome the publication of the report and thank Senator Carrigy for all the work he has done on this and all my colleagues who have worked with him on it. His group was established prior to my election. I am delighted that all after that work, it has come to fruition today. I also thank the...

Seanad: Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: That is when my advocacy as a parent began because in Ireland, as a parent and carer and as a family who experience disability, you become de facto an advocate. I approached the line Minister at the time. I never got to speak to the Minister for Health. I would characterise the response then, in 2011, as one of hostility and quite confrontational. The attitude was one of “So, you...

Seanad: Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: I just wanted to acknowledge the work that has been done. I feel a sea change in relation to our community. All of us need to come together. Whether it is neurodivergence, intellectual or physical disability, we have the most powerful lobby in the country. If disabled persons' organisations and parents like me who are mandated under the UNCRPD to advocate for parents come together and...

Seanad: Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: Well said.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: I first wish to apologise because I had to leave to make up a quorum on the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. People there were presenting on some of the issues that the witnesses were referring to regarding how volatile things are at the moment and how febrile the world is. Even though I missed some of the presentations, I felt it informed some of what I caught from Professor...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: I apologise in advance because I have to go to another meeting but I thank the witnesses for all of the presentations and for the initiative.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: This is good.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: I echo the sentiments concerning Mary O'Rourke. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a h-anam dílis. I want to raise again in the House the case of Caitlin Ada Joanne Hassan. I give her full name, as I did on a Commencement matter, because she is a human being. She is a young woman who was sexually and physically assaulted while in the care of the State in a section 39 care provider, Avista....

Seanad: Budget 2025 (Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform): Statements (1 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: I echo Senator Ward's concerns about criminal barristers and free legal aid. It is an issue that goes to our fundamental trust in the administration of justice. It is an index of society that is extremely important. The Minister of State and I share an intimate understanding of the challenges posed by disability. I do not for one moment doubt his integrity and commitment to the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Service Executive (25 Sep 2024)

Tom Clonan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I thank him for coming along and deputising for the Minister for Health. Cathaoirleach, why is the Minister for Health not here?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Service Executive (25 Sep 2024)

Tom Clonan: I want it noted for the record that the Minister for Health never appears here for any of the Commencement matters that I submit, no matter how grave. Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence but three times or more is a strategy. This is a matter of such gravity and I infer from his absence today an attitude towards the issues that I am raising continuously in this House, which shows a...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Service Executive (25 Sep 2024)

Tom Clonan: I am sorry, but on a point of order.This family has relinquished its anonymity.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Service Executive (25 Sep 2024)

Tom Clonan: Therefore, not only is it appropriate for the HSE to comment on an individual case but it is obliged to.